Following the discussion in #29, @nivopol has pointed me to a quick and straight-forward way to install a keyboard layout on XKB without running kalamine as root:
Here’s an attempt. It seems to work for me on Xorg (i3) and Wayland (sway): kalamine now produces an *.xkb_patch file, which can be sudo-copied to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/custom.
It still requires sudo but it’s a valuable improvement. One of the cool benefits is that (if supported) this symbols/custom file will not be overwritten if the OS updates XKB.
Following the discussion in #29, @nivopol has pointed me to a quick and straight-forward way to install a keyboard layout on XKB without running kalamine as root:
https://who-t.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-pre-supplied-custom-keyboard-layout.html https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/merge_requests/189/diffs
Here’s an attempt. It seems to work for me on Xorg (i3) and Wayland (sway): kalamine now produces an
*.xkb_patchfile, which can be sudo-copied to/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/custom.It still requires
sudobut it’s a valuable improvement. One of the cool benefits is that (if supported) thissymbols/customfile will not be overwritten if the OS updates XKB.